The Reception of Greek Science in Gregory of Nyssa's De hominis opificio.
One of the most significant philosophical questions that Gregory of Nyssa grappled with in his anthropological treatise, De hominis opificio, was how intelligible mind, the image of God that the human person contained, might possibly exist in the physically-circumscribed limits of the corporeal body...
| Publicado en: | Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 24 - 47 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2009
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